Queenstown born-and-raised Carmen Doran (28) told the Queenstown Times this week she and brother Marc (24) and friend Brent Clements (25) were gearing up for "the Adventurists' Festival of Slow" at Goodwood racing circuit, near Portsmouth, on Saturday, July 24.
The colourful jamboree is the send-off for 350 teams entering this year's rally.
The Doran siblings and Mr Clements said they had taken their rally car, a 2002 Renault Kangoo, all over England, Scotland and Wales and were happy to report the tiny vehicle was still going strong.
The Mongol Rally is an unsupported and arbitrary 20,000km adventure across 15 countries, involving mountains, deserts, bad roads and places with no roads, in deliberately unsuitable one-litre cars, in aid of official charities.
The Queenstown team aims to raise as much money as possible for the Christina Nobel Children's Foundation, which shelters Mongolian orphans.
